Saturday, October 18, 2008

While chatting with my good friend Nick, I came to know that Stella's (a nice restaurant in Duke Street, Alexandria) has been closed for more than couple of years now. It is a nice, cosy restaurant that we used to go for lunch when we were working in Lumenos. I certainly have quite a lot of sweet memories there especially going for chipotle chicken on thursdays and happy hour(even though i don't drink.... just to have my root BEER/Diet Coke !!!).. The outdoor dining area in Stella's is a real nice place to have lunch/dinner.

It would have been a great trip down the memory lane if I could have had a chiptole chicken with some good old friends when I do go to USA for a business trip.. Probably have to be happy eating my foot long roasted chicken in Hearty Italian made fresh in the Subway across the Road !!

Friday, October 17, 2008

In my office desktop, I have lookout installed to speed up searches in Outlook 2003. Lookout started crashing frequently for the last couple of days, I was not sure what the reason was and I tried to find the solution online.

After trial and error, I found out that I have recently installed Outlook connector as part of Windows Live package (I wanted to install only Livewriter but mistakenly installed outlook live connector). Once I uninstalled Live connector everything is fine and lookout is able to index my mails without any issues.

I hope this post will be of help to someone who runs into the same issue.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Check out the Nissan Around View Monitor mentioned in the top 10 most brilliant Gadgets of the Year. I think this revolutionizes the way we would park our car. It gives the bird's eye view on the navigation screen. Check out this video to see the technology in action.

Friday, October 10, 2008

In my current company we are using StarTeam as the source control choice, I wouldn't classify it as a great source control tool but certainly better then Visual Source Safe (VSS) and PVCS Version Control that I have been using in my previous companies.

One of the best thing StarTeam offers is the ability to integrate third party file comparison/merge tools to be used from within StarTeam. I have been using Winmerge for some time as the choice of tool for Merge/Difference comparison. Refer to Jon Galloway's blog for good reference on Integrating WinMerge with StarTeam.

I have recently started using DiffMerge as the tool of choice for doing Comparison/Merging from within StarTeam. Please follow the steps mentioned below to use DiffMerge for comparison/merge from within StarTeam.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

yahooo !!! atlast I was able to get my hands on the next generation gaming console !!! It's a PS3.. After debating between a Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 I ended up getting a PS3.

When I decided to buy a next generation console, I started with Wii since I have been reading very good reviews about the controller, but I could not find it in stock in any of the shops (Best Buy, Circuit City), so I decided to go with PS3. Hope it would turn out to be a good choice over wii and xbox 360.

I was able to successfully upgrade my phone to v2.1 using the pwanapple tool. It was a very simple process of getting your iphone unlocked and I would recommend anybody having the iphone 2G to use this method to upgrade their iphone to use v2.1.

I am very impressed with App Store and the list of applications users can currently download. Altast, I have been able to get my hands on Kai Pond, which is a well thought out application for iphone.

About Me

Person who loves to code in C# and neat SQL hacks in SQL Server. Mostly worked in Microsoft related technologies. Love travelling when I do have some time. Did my studies mostly in Coimbatore. Worked in Coimbatore, Mumbai, London, New York, Washington DC and now back in Chennai.